Job growth was decent in July — the fourth straight month of just-OK results on that front, which probably led to high fives at the White House.

But there’s something unusual in the numbers.

And when I tell you what it is, you’ll understand that voter dislike of Hillary Clinton and the Russian interference in the election had little to do with why Donald Trump became president.

The election turned on the amount of money voters had in their pockets.

The latest revised figures from the Commerce Department showed that take-home pay and disposable income in the US haven’t nearly kept up with the job growth figures — and the trend began well before Trump took office.

On Friday, the Labor Department announced that 209,000 jobs were created in July. That’s good by recent standards but nothing to do a touchdown dance over in the longer term.

That growth was larger than the experts had been predicting. The average growth over the last three months is 195,000 — again, decent but not worthy of a celebration.

Walter Williams, whose Shadow Stats newsletter picks apart Washington’s economic data, says recently revised numbers on disposable income indicate the US is close to a recession.

Officially, the government says the economy is growing very modestly — at less than 2 percent a year.

But the latest government numbers on disposable income tell a bleaker story. Income grew at just a 0.69 percent annual rate in 2016.